Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/18-4/22

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad.

"As Sotto, the new Italian restaurant from Steve Samson and Zack Pollack, who ran David Meyer's Pizza Ortica at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, somebody sprung to fix up the basement, because it is suddenly intimate instead of cramped, dedicated to wine instead of cocktails, and has a sense of stability only a $15,000 pizza oven ballasted with imported Vesuvian dirt can provide." First Bite: Sotto, or The Happiness of Abattoir Jocks.

When a pizza restaurant runs out of dough during a busy night, it's a bummer for hungry customers who show up expecting to eat. For the restaurant, there could be worse problems. To anyone else, the irony is kind of amusing, given that the business's name itself contains said pizza component that's in limited supply. Now Open: Mother Dough Pizza in Los Feliz.

"No word on whether she can stay in the hotel where John Belushi OD'd in 1982, where Jim Morrison reportedly dangled from a drainpipe, where Montgomery Clift recuperated after his car crash, where John Frusciante nearly killed himself on heroin, where Greta Garbo holed up ven she vanted to be alone." Banned from Chateau Marmont for Tweeting.